1 Age, Parity and stages of cervix cancer: A hospital Based study

Abstract : Cervical Cancer continues to be a huge burden in the society in spite of remarkable advancement in diagnosis and management of the disease. In our country approximately 85% of cervical cancer patients present in locally advanced stage. Low socioeconomic status, early age of pregnancy, multiparity, high prevalence HPV infection and smoking have been the major factors responsible for cervical cancer. The study was designed to see epidemiological factors associated with incidence of cancer cervix in state of Bihar, India. The study was done on 600 cervical cancer patients from January 2015 to March 2015 who underwent radiotherapy at our hospital. Data were collected and statistical analysis was performed according to statistical package of graph and prism. Mean age of the patients was 49.5 years. Average parity was 4.81 children per patient. It was observed that 2.83%, 55.33%, 18.16%, 1.33% of patients belonged to FIGO stage I, II, III, IV respectively. Histology of the cervical cancer patient showed that 91.83% of the patients were squamous cell carcinoma.3.5% of the patients was of Adenocarcinoma and 1.67% of the patients were of adenosquamous cell carcinoma. It is concluded from our study that mean age of incidence of cervix cancer is low in Muslim women as well low in general as reported in other part of the country. Majority of patients were reported in advanced stage, with Average parity was 4.81 children per patient. 91% patients were having Squamous cell carcinoma.

Keyword : cervical cancer, epidemiology, parity, Adenocarcinoma